Two-time Grammy Award winner Marc Anthony, the top-selling tropical salsa artist of all time and husband of Jennifer Lopez, will headline Allentown Fair’s grandstand on Sep. 3, the fair just announced.

Tickets for Anthony, the fourth headliner to be announced for the fair, will match the prices for last year’s show by prog rockers Rush as the fair’s most expensive ever, at $85, $69 and $49. But Anthony has traditionally played much larger venues than the fair's 10,500 capacity.

They are scheduled to go on sale at 10 a.m. April 9 at at the Fair Box Office, online at Ticketmaster.com, over the phone at 800-745-3000 and at Ticketmaster Centers.

Anthony’s worldwide sales of his 11 studio albums — the last four and six of the last eight of which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin chart — are estimated at as much as 30 million. He has had 33 singles hit the Top 40 on the U.S. Latin chart.

He is tied with Víctor Manuelle for having the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart, at 17.

His hits “I Need to Know” in 1999 and “You Sang to Me” in 2000 crossed over to become Top 3 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

His most recent album, “Iconis,” released in May, hit No. 11 on the Billboard albums chart and held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Latin charts for six consecutive weeks and earned him his 12th Latin Grammy Award nomination. He's won three latin Grammys.

His 1997 disc "Contra la Corriente," won the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance, in 2005 his disc "Amar Sin Mentiras" wo the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album.

Anthony has been married to Lopez since June 2004. Last week, he joined her on "American Idol," where she started as a judge this year, to help mentor the contestants.

The son of Puerto Rican parents, Anthony was born and raised in New York City. He's also an actor, having starred in such movies as Martin Scorsese’s “Bringing Out the Dead” and Tony Scott’s “Man on Fire.” As Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Héctor Lavoe in Leon Ishaso’s biopic “El Cantante,” he starred opposite his wife Lopez.

On TV, he co-starred with Salma Hayak in the film “In the time of Butterflies,” and is slated to join the cast of TNT’s drama series “Hawthorne” as police detective Nick Renata, a role he originated in two guest episodes last year. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 in Paul Simon’s musical “The Capeman.”

JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

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JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.